American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 131
- Number 12
- December 1974
ARTICLES
Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1317–1322As biobehavioral scientists, psychiatrists bear a major responsibility in the current revolution involving our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Based on his experience in the courtroom, the author sees psychiatry’s primary focus on treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1317Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1323–1327A 90-item symptom checklist (SCL-90) was administered to 30 patients admitted consecutively to an oncology research unit. More than half of the patients showed moderate to high levels of depression, and 30 percent had elevated levels of anxiety. Nearly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1323Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1328–1331The authors analyzed records of all suicides in the naval service between July 1965 and January 1972 by officer/enlisted-man status. Officer suicides were demographically similar to civilian suicides, but enlisted men were relatively younger. Data on this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1328Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1332–1337The American literature on abortion suggests that an immediate negative response to abortion is not uncommon among women undergoing this procedure and that short-term unhappiness and guilt may be part of the normal response. The proportion of women with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1332Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1338–1343Adolescents are rapidly acquiring new medical and legal rights. One of the issues being raised in the field of organ transplantation is the ability of the adolescent to decide to give one of his body organs to another person. Can he make a valid and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1338Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1344–1347The authors describe the use of instructions and immediate feedback in sequentially shaping target assertive behaviors. Deficiencies in assertive behavior were assessed in two subjects by means ofratings of videotaped interactions. Training involved ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1344Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1348–1353The author recalls this year’s anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history medicine, psychiatry, and psychology and examines their practical or theoretical contributions.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1348Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1354–1358In October 1972, President Nixon signed into law Public Law 92-603, a section of which calls for mandatory utilization review of inpatient medical services rendered to Medicare and Medicaid patients and beneficiaries of Maternal and Child Health programs. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1354Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1358–1362The Central California Psychiatric Society conducted a six-month survey of practice among its 200 members to develop data useful for establishing local norms as a basis of peer review guidelines. During the six-month period. 3.151 reports were received ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1358Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1363–1366With the advent of Professional Standards Review Organizations, mental health professionals are required to monitor and review their practices. The authors suggest that an educational peer review system promoting cooperation among professionals will be of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1363Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1367–1370The authors describe the development, implementation, and impact of a peer review system that evolved out of a partnership between a state mental health department and a state medical society. From a computer-based, physician-directed medical peer review ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1367Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1370–1374The authors describe a system of medical care evaluation (or audit) that is an alternative to systems requiring extensive electronic data processing and is of practical use on psychiatric services. Nonphysician reviewers abstract data on preselected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1370Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1374–1377Peer review in psychiatry will be difficult because of inadequate records, lack of agreement on diagnosis, the limited usefulness of psychiatric diagnosis, wide variations in criteria for hospitalization and discharge, the complex nature of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1374Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1378–1381The authors discuss the difficulties and opportunities that the Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO) can create in psychiatry. They examine the issues of alternatives to admission, length of stay, quality versus cost decisions, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1378Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1389–1391The authors compared the effects of norepinephrine on catecholamine alpha receptors in platelets obtained from bipolar and unipolar depressed patients and from normal subjects. They found no differences, although reduced catecholamine receptor function ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1389Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1392–1394The authors measured monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity in blood platelets of normal control subjects, patients with schizophrenia, and patients with other psychiatric diagnoses. No differences were found among the groups as a whole. However, in the control ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1392Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1395–1397Blood concentrations of the minor tranquilizer chlordiazepoxide were measured in nine healthy volunteers after administration of single 25-mg. doses. Peak blood concentrations and rates of absorption and disappearance varied considerably among the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1395Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1397–1399The authors describe an experimental study in which young adolescents with behavior problems in school were given group therapy during school hours. Compared with a control group of problem students who received no therapy, the students who participated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1397Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1400–1402The author presents excerpts from the diary of Joseph Wortis to illustrate Freud’s analysis of a man whose fees were paid by a third party. Freud made no specific recommendations concerning third-party payment, but the fact that he undertook Wortis’ ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1974.131.12.1400Publication date: 01 December 1974
Pages1402–1404Mesmerism was generally rejected by the medical establishment in Europe and the United States until Jean-Martin Charcot introduced it at the Salpêtriѐre in the 1870s. Nonetheless, a well-organized and active mesmer society flourished in New Orleans from ...
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